Memoir
What genre of writing captures a meaningful personal experience and reflects on its importance?
Memoir
Details that appeal directly to the senses are known as these.
What are sensory details?
What part of the narrative arc introduces the setting, characters, and situation?
Exposition
Naming, detailing, and comparing are all examples of this writing skill.
What is description?
A memoir focuses on one of these, an important moment worth retelling.
Significant Event
This term refers to a phrase that has been overused so much it loses meaning.
What is a cliché
What stage includes events that increase tension and move the story toward the climax?
Rising action
This technique provides specific nouns to make writing clear (e.g., “oak tree” instead of “tree”).
What is naming?
What part of a memoir shows the world of the story before the conflict begins?
Exposition
The sound of sneakers squeaking on a gym floor is an example of this type of imagery.
What is auditory imagery?
What is the most intense, exciting, or pivotal moment of a story?
Climax
Adding vivid, meaningful specifics that bring an image or moment to life.
What is detailing?
What point of view is most commonly used in memoirs?
First Person
This is the main reason clichés weaken writing.
What is they lose emotional impact or meaning?
What events begin to settle in this part of the narrative arc, following the climax?
Falling action
Using similes or metaphors to deepen meaning.
What is comparing?
A memoir blends storytelling with what type of truth?
Real-life Experience
“Everything happens for a reason” is an example of this kind of language.
What is a cliché
What concludes in this final phase of the narrative arc.
Resolution
Writers use this rule to make scenes vivid: “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light.”
What is show, don’t tell?